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Randall Leeds commented on COUCHDB-1108:
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I think I wrote this patch and it was rejected a while back.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-650
It looks like the rationale wasn't so much that it was a bad feature, but that the original ticket was requesting it for a different purpose that was fulfilled instead by putting update_seq in the view response.
I'm still for adding this.
> expand options for since argument in _changes
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> Key: COUCHDB-1108
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1108
> Project: CouchDB
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: HTTP Interface
> Affects Versions: 1.0.2
> Reporter: Thomas Vander Stichele
> Priority: Minor
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> It would be useful to get continous _change feed from the current change_id. Now, if you only care about new changes, you have to first get the change_seq from the db, then ask for the _change feed with since=...
> since=current as an argument could be an option.
> Similarly, it might be useful to start with the last five changes (in all notification ways). for example, since=-5
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